What could you do with a 17 by 17 foot white room?
The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design has appointed artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professors in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2019 – 2020 Academic Year.
Michelle Lopez, Barricade, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Simon Preston, New York
Opening on September 13, 2019, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) will present the first major institutional exhibition of Philadelphia-based artist Michelle Lopez. The exhibition will be on view at ICA September 13, 2019 through May 10, 2020.
Image from San Juan’s Skyway Magazine Summer/Fall 2019.
A door to the past was uncovered by Frank Matero, professor of Architecture and chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, and
Mary Tasillo, studio manager of Common Press
Last year, the Common Press, a letterpress and book arts studio founded at Penn in 2006 during the 300th anniversary celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s birth, made a couple important moves. The studio, a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, the Penn Libraries, and Kelly Writers House, moved from the Morgan Fine Arts Building to the basement of the Fisher Fine Arts Library. And it hired its first-ever full-time studio manager, Mary Tasillo.
Leading by Design explores the work of PennDesign alumni, faculty members, and supporters of the School who are expanding the practice of art and design to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Photo: CJ Willis/Monument Lab
Paul Farber’s colleagues now joke that he is holding his meetings atop a monument.
"Breakfast Before Extinction" photo by Orkan Telhan
Interdisciplinary designer and associate professor at the Weitzman School of Design, Orkan Telhan was a consulting curator and commissioned artist for
Orkan Telhan would like you to try some fruit. Microbial fruit, grown in his design studio.
(c) Darren Bradley Photography
When the Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation approached David Hartt, assistant professor of fine arts, proposing that he cre
Ana Beatriz Valente Soares is both an architecture and fine arts student in the School of Arts and Sciences who expects to graduate with her bachelor’s this May. Hers is not a common double major, so she has worked hard to create a path for herself that checks all the boxes of her unique interests.
Comberg and the Class Action collective recently created a series of billboards with the Union for Concerned Scientists on the relationship between religion and science.